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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3829341, member: 289"] I don't like the concept of 'earned runs' or even of 'errors' vs. 'hits'. What other sports do this? Baseball plays twice as many games as basketball and hockey and ten times as many as football. The statistical anomalies will be best filtered out in a 162 game season. You don't have to determine if something is somebody's fault, (unless you are attributing a result earned by the entire team to one man, see above). if the batter hits a fair ball and makes it at least to first base before an out is recorded, that's a hit. An error can be charged to a fielder if he drops a ball he gets his glove on, makes a wild throw, throws tot he wrong base or fails to position himself properly to make the play but that doesn't take away the hit or make a run 'unearned'. When you check the scores at night, they won't quote the 'earned runs" to tell you who won the game. [/QUOTE]